Skip to main content
  • Industry Solutions
    • Managed Service Providers
    • Enterprise Solutions
    • Developers & Startups
    • Healthcare
    • Trading and Financial
      • Chicago Managed Trading Servers
      • Trading and Financial Colocation: Chicago & New Jersey
    • IBM AS/400 and iSeries Users
  • Support
    • Register
    • View Tickets
    • Submit a Ticket
    • Knowledgebase
    • News
  • Steadfast Blog
  • Steadfast Podcasts
  • Contact Us
Home
  • Call Us
  • Call | 888.281.9449
  • Login
  • Search

This form logs you into your management portal account. To access your help desk account, click here and use the form to the right of the news.

  • Cloud Hosting
    • Cloud Hosting
    • Private Cloud
    • Hybrid Cloud
    • Public Cloud
    • Cloud Storage
      • Secure File Share
      • Wasabi Cloud Storage
    • Virtual Data Center Platform
  • Managed Hosting
    • Bare Metal Dedicated Servers
      • Deep Learning GPU Dedicated Servers
      • Linux Dedicated Servers
      • Windows Dedicated Servers
    • Virtual Private Servers
    • Data Center Colocation
      • Managed Colocation
      • Chicago: 350 E Cermak
      • Chicago: 725 S Wells
      • Edison, New Jersey
    • Security & Compliance
      • Managed Firewall
      • SSL VPN
      • DDoS Protection
      • Email Security
  • Backup & Disaster Recovery
    • Backup
    • Disaster Recovery
    • Veeam Backup & Replication
    • Veeam Cloud Connect
    • Wasabi Cloud Storage
  • Why Steadfast
    • Why Steadfast?
    • About Steadfast
      • Our History
      • News and Press
    • Data Centers & Network
      • Our Data Centers
      • Our Network
      • Network Test
      • Peering Policy
    • Customer Stories
    • Service Level Agreement
  • Industry Solutions
    • Managed Service Providers
    • Enterprise Solutions
    • Developers & Startups
    • Healthcare
    • Trading and Financial
      • Chicago Managed Trading Servers
      • Trading and Financial Colocation: Chicago & New Jersey
    • IBM AS/400 and iSeries Users
  • Support
    • Register
    • View Tickets
    • Submit a Ticket
    • Knowledgebase
    • News
  • Steadfast Blog
  • Steadfast Podcasts
  • Contact Us
Close
Return to All Blog Posts

Is A Private Cloud Right For Your Organization?

June 29, 2016 in
Cloud

A private cloud is a cloud platform reserved for the use of one organization. Public clouds are — by definition — a shared infrastructure platform. Many organizations can deploy virtual servers on a public cloud, and each virtual server will share a physical server with instances owned by other organizations. Private clouds have many of the benefits of a public cloud — virtualized infrastructure that can be deployed on demand — but all the resources of the physical layer are at the disposal of a single company.

Contrary to interminable debates in the early days of cloud computing, neither public or private are superior as cloud modalities. Each has a specific domain of application in which it shines. But how does an organization know which modality is right for their use case?

Flexibility And Control

Public clouds are flexible in terms of the virtual servers they run, but the flexibility of a private cloud goes well beyond that. Private clouds can be designed to suit the specific needs of an organization and the software deployed on them tailored for particular applications.

Whereas public clouds offer a fixed set of alternatives for infrastructure deployment, a private cloud can be used to build an entirely custom virtual environment.

Privacy

This one may seem somewhat obvious, but private clouds are genuinely private. For some companies, guaranteed infrastructure privacy is an important factor in their choice of cloud modality. They want to know that their workloads are running on systems that they control and have insight into. A typical infrastructure strategy might mix public and private components, with high-value or sensitive workloads being limited to a private cloud.

Performance

While it’s rare, public cloud platforms can occasionally suffer from server or network contention issues that cause each server to have access to fewer resources than is optimal. That’s not usually a problem, because it can be managed by migrating virtual servers to other physical nodes or spinning up new servers, but if a company has an application that requires maximum performance with predictable consistency, a private cloud is almost certainly the right choice.

Compliance

While it’s perfectly possible to comply with most regulatory frameworks that impact infrastructure hosting users on a public cloud, it’s often easier to achieve certifications and regulatory compliance if your organization can demonstrate that its computing resources are isolated from the wider world. Private clouds are inherently isolated, and may be the best choice for an organization that stores and processes sensitive data.

Public and private clouds are not competing modalities, but part of a cohesive cloud strategy that properly leverages the specific benefits of each.

Share This
facebook twitter email compact

Comments (0)

Leave a Comment

Get an image next to your comment by visiting Gravatar.com and uploading a profile photo that links to your address.

Search the Blog

Categories

backup
(1)
bare metal
(1)
Business Talk
(23)
Chicago
(11)
Chicago colocation
(1)
Cloud
(34)
cloud backup
(1)
cloud services
(2)
colocation
(4)
colocation services
(1)

Archives

  • August 2022 (1)
  • March 2022 (3)
  • October 2021 (1)
  • January 2021 (1)
  • July 2020 (1)
  • June 2020 (1)
  • April 2020 (1)
  • March 2020 (1)
  • August 2019 (1)
  • July 2019 (1)

Follow Us

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • LinkedIn
  • RSS Feed
  • 312.602.2689
  • ColoHouse Sales
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • YouTube
  • LinkedIn

Services

  • Cloud Hosting
  • Managed Hosting
  • Backup & Disaster Recovery

Solutions By Industry

  • Enterprise Solutions
  • Trading & Financial
  • Healthcare
  • Developers & Startups
© 2023 Steadfast
  • Log In
  • Site Map
  • Legal Info & Privacy Policy